Background
Turner, Daniel Lawrence was born on October 25, 1869 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. Son of Daniel James and Mary Elizabeth (Lawrence) Turner.
Transit Commission Con sulting Engineer
Turner, Daniel Lawrence was born on October 25, 1869 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. Son of Daniel James and Mary Elizabeth (Lawrence) Turner.
Early ed’n Norfolk (Virginia) Academy. Graduate Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, C.E., 1891.
Assistant in mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1892-1893. In active practice as civil eng’r in Connecticut, New York State and New York City since 1893. Instructor in surveying and hydraulics, and in charge Harvard Eng’ring Camp, Harvard University, 1893-1903.
Assistant eng’r in charge of stations Rapid Transit R. R. Comm’n, New New York.
Member, Railroad Commissioners Public Service Commission and Transit Commission from Assistant Engineer to Chief Engineer Consulting Engineer, Detroit Rapid Transit Commission, since 1923, City Transit Commission, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since 1924, Board of Transportation, New York City, since 1924. Commissioner Fine Arts Commission, State of New York, 1925-1928. Chmn. Suburban Transit Engineering Board, New York City.
Delegate., representing United States by appointment of President Hoover to World Engineering Congress in Japan, 1929. Member: Sigma Xi; American Society of Civil Engineers. American Association of Engineers.
National. Conference on City Planning. American Society of Engineers. National. Geographical.
Society; Harvard Engineering Society Clubs: University, Century Association, Engineers.
Married at Norfolk, Virginia, February 3, 1896, Eva Barcine Denby.